We started fwd. because we were tired of agency websites that promised the moon and delivered a WordPress theme. We build calmer sites, with fewer people, for fairer prices.
Why we exist
A good website should make a small business look twice its size, not a third of it.
For two decades the only good options were either custom — done by an agency, billed against retainers, and shipped six months late — or template, done by a freelancer in a weekend, and exactly as forgettable as the next.
We are trying something in between. A small studio, fixed prices, real design work, and a turnaround measured in weeks. Most of what we ship is a single landing page. That is enough. Most businesses do not need more.
We work directly with the people whose names will appear in the footer. There is no account manager, no kickoff deck, no Slack channel called #engagement. Just three of us, and you, and a couple of weeks of careful design.
Three to four a quarter. We would rather ship one site well than six sites in parallel.
Two tiers, both posted publicly. No hourlies, no retainers, no scope creep.
Your domain, your hosting, your code. We hand it over and you can switch designers tomorrow.
No engagements, no deliverables, no ideation sprints. You will know what you are paying for.
You will meet all three of us on the first call, and the same three names will be on every email. Photos coming soon — for now, the names will do.
The contact form takes about a minute. We reply to every inquiry.
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